Adjustable spout or conveyer.



PATENTED APR. 24, 1906.

S. B. HART.

ADJUSTABLBSPOUT OR OONVEYER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.16. 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STACY B. HART, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HART GRAIN WVEIGHER (30., OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLI- ADJUSTABLE SPOUT OR CONVEYER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24, 1906.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, STACY B. HART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Spouts or Conveyers and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates more particularly to spouts or conveyers which are pivoted at t eir inlet end, and especially relates to the means for vertically adjusting the outlet end of a spout or conveyer of the above description.

The object of my invention is to provide a s out or conveyer that can be adjusted and locked in position from the outlet end there of, which object I attain by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a pivoted spout or con veyer provided with my adjusting device. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the locking mechanism of the adustable support.

With reference to the said drawings the spout or conveyer 1 is pivoted, as at 2, to an intermediate intercommunicating portion 3, which said intermediate portion 3 has a jacket 4, inclosing and rotating on an annuar flange of the lower portion of the hopper 5 or other suitable feed-supply, thereby supporting the said spout or conveyer 1 and providing a rotatable connection with the said hopper 5 or other suitable feed-supply, as the case may require.

About midway in the length of the spout or conveyor 1 is a collar 6, secured thereon. On the under side of the spout or conveyer, either integral with the said collar or securely fastened thereto, are the ear-like projections 7, which provide for a pivotal connection of the tube or pipe 8 therewith and also provide for pivotal connection of a short lever 9,

preferably using the one pivot or bolt 10 tov fasten both the tube and the short lever in their pivotal connection with the collar 6. The tube or pipe 8 telescopes the free end of the tube or rod 11, which said tube or rod 11 has a pivotal connection at 12 with the table 13, the said table rotating on and in the support 14, the axis of rotation of the said table 13 on and in the support 14 being a continuation of the axis of rotation of the intermediate portion 3 of the spout or conveyer on the flange of the hopper 5 or other suitable feel-supply, as aforesaid.

The free end of the tube or pipe 8, which telescopes the tube or rod 11,'1s provided with a locking device, (shown in crosssec tion in Fig. 2,) which said locking device is preferably fastened to the end of the telescoping-tube 8 by means of a tight-fitting collar or sleeve 15 and a set-screw 16. (Shown in Fig. 1.) This locking device consists of a casing having a cylindrical opening 17 therein perpendicular to the telescoped rod 11 and a spring-pressed pin 18, riding therein, the said pin in its lowermost position being inserted in the perforations l9, placed at intervals in the tube or rod 11, and thus locking the said tube or rod 11 in the desired osition with reference to the telescoping tu e S.

The spring 20, backed by the end casing of the cylindrical opening 17, bears against the annular flange 21 on the pin 18, thereby causing the said pin in its normal released condition to assume a lowermost position.

Pivotally connected at its elbow to the extension 22 of the collar 15 or the casing of the cylindrical opening 17 is the angle-lever 23, which has a pivotal connection through the arm 24, with the spring-pressed locking-pin 18. The other arm 25 of this angle-lever 23 has a connection through the rod 26 with the short lever 9, while the rod 27, also connected with the short lever 9, passes through the guide-eyelet 28, which is fastened to the spout or conveyer 1, and terminates in a handle 29 near the mouth or outlet end of the spout or conveyer 1, thus allowing operation of the locking pin 18 through the series of levers and rods from the outlet end of the spout or conveyer and allowing the operator to adjust and lock the spout or conveyer in any desired position from the mouth or outlet end of the spout or conveyer thereby.

This spout or conveyer is designed particularly for use in connection with threshermachines where the grain is deposited in wagons. As is known, few wagons are of the same height, so it is desirable to adjust the spout from the outlet end and. while in the wagon to suit the height of the wagon to be filled.

I am aware that adjustable spouts and conveyers are and have been used and am aware that telescopical supports have been used thereon; but Iam not aware that a telescopical'support has been used in connectionwith a spout or conveyer and having means for adjusting the same from the outlet end of the spout.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is- I l. The combination with a conveyer hori- Zonta'lly and vertically vibratably supported at its inlet end, of mechanism operative from the outlet end thereof for adjustingthe conveyer in various positions' of'its vibration.

2. The combination, with a pivoted and rotatablespout or conveyer, of a telescopical support therefor, a spring-pressed pin for adjusting the said tele'scopical support, "and means for controlling the said spring-pressed pin from the outlet endof the aforesaid spout or conveyer.

3. The combination, with a spout or conveyer so constructed at the inlet end as'to be horizontallyrotatable and vertically adjustable, of alongitudinally-adjustable brace or support therefor, and means for controlling the adjustment of the said'brace or support fromthe outlet end of the supported spout or conveyer. 7

4f The combination with a laterally and vertically adjustable spout or conveyer of a telescopicalsupport therefor, perforations in the'telescoped portion of the support, and a spring-pressed pin arranged to engage the said perforations, and means for controlling the said spring-pressed 'pin from' t he outlet endof the conveyer.

5. The combination with a vibratably-supsported conveyer, of an under-brace therefor,

adapted to be operated from the outlet end of the conveyer to adjust the said conveyer in various positions of its vibration.

6. The combination with a pivoted spout or conveyer of an adjustable support therefor, and means for adjusting the said support from the outlet end of the saidspout or conveyer.

7 In a spout or conveyer rotatableabout the feed-supply inlet and vertically adjustable, the combination therewith of an adjustable support therefor, and means for adjusting the said support from the outlet end of thespout or conveyer.

8. The combination with a horizontallyrotatable and vertically-vibratableconveyer of an under-brace therefor, mounted ona part rotatable about the axis of rotation of the elevator, and means foradjusting thesaid under-brace from'the outlet end'of the elevator for the purposes herein specified.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence'of two witnesses.

STACY B. HART.

WALTER B. WILDE. 

